Flotow
Americannoun
noun
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The band made its biggest impression adapting classical compositions into popular swing numbers: notably “My Reverie,” from the Claude Debussy piano piece “Rêverie,” and “Martha,” from the Friedrich von Flotow opera of the same name.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 21, 2017
He wrote his own libretto and decked it out with orchestral preludes, choruses, solos, duos, even a quintet, in a way that indicated he probably knew the works of Weber and Flotow.
From Time Magazine Archive
Inferior even to the slightest of the minor composers of the romantic school was Flotow, whose 'Martha' nevertheless has survived to our time, while hundreds of works far superior in every way have perished irretrievably.
From The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. by Fuller-Maitland, J. A.
Baron Flotow will have occasion to meet the Secretary of State this afternoon.
From In the World War by Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, Ottokar Theobald Otto Maria, Graf
Count von Flotow, his father, and an old officer of Blucher, was nearly as much opposed to his son becoming a musician as Frederick the Great's.
From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.
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